This software package contains over 700 exercises for beginning students of Russian. Although it is written to accompany Beginning Russian, Second Revised Edition, prepared by Richard L. Leed (also published by Slavica), it may also be used with most elementary and intermediate Russian textbooks, either for learning new material or for review. The printed manual and the menu system of the program make it easy to select exercises on specific topics which are independent of the textbook used.

There are at least 5 exercises dedicated to the material in each lesson of Beginning Russian(which has 110 short lessons in all). The exercises concentrate on such topics as spelling, gender, agreement, government, declension, conjugation, prepositions, etc.

The exercises run on MS-DOS machines (not on Macintosh, but see exception below) with DOS version 3.1 and later (including 3.2, 3.3, 4, 5, and the many flavors of 6) equipped with at least 384K of RAM and any of the following display adapters and displays: Video Graphics Array (VGA) with any display supported by this adapter, EGA with either Monochrome or Enhanced Color Display, Hercules Graphics Card Plus with Monochrome Display, Hercules InColor Card with Enhanced Color Display, Hercules Network Card with RAMFONT, or Multi Color Graphics Array (MCGA) with any display supported by this adapter. They will also run on a Macintosh using Soft AT/EGA, the MS-DOS emulator made by Insignia Solutions.

The exercises can run from a fixed (hard) disk or network, as well as directly from the two floppy disks on which they are delivered. In configuring the program, the instructor can choose whether or not it will repeat questions missed by the student and whether or not it will generate files that keep track of students' progress.